[Shinrei]

Rodeo, you make me think of Bill Murray with that groundhog.

Ran 10km today. Gonna have a runner's meal of HUGE MOUNDS OF PASTA tonight.

[Gust Hubb]

Ugh, ambiguous day. First return to exercise since the kid was born (elliptical for 30 minutes with a short bike ride to and from the gym), and yet my standard scale at the gym says I've pretty much gained all the weight back in the past 5 months ( 179 ---> 189 LBS). Really depressing.

I do now have a lot of apples to eat after the orchard run and I eat a bell pepper a day for the past 3 days. I just wish I didn't have to fight the poundage all over again....

Oh, and now I'm back to using this free website: www.dailyburn.com

If anyone wants to join me there, just let me know and I'll "friend" you.

This post has been edited by Gust Hubb: 20 September 2011 - 06:50 PM

[Tsundoku]

Agility circuit today, ugh.

1. Jumps or high knees (running on the spot with your knees up level with your hips) on a 50cm thick gym mat. With 4 other people on it as well the trick is not falling arse over head.
2. jumping to alternate sides along a 40cm high and 3m long beam. Again the trick is not to clip the beam and fall over.
3. 20m shuttle runs.
4. ladders - where you have a rope ladder along the ground and you step between each of the rungs at high speed. Or jump with both feet like spastic rabbits. Or step through 2, step out to the side, then step back in again and repeat for the length (6m with 30-40cm rung gaps).
5. repeat 6 times with 1 minute slow jog/shuffling around the circuit after doing one full circuit of all 4 activities.
6. lifesavers - start by laying flat on your stomach facing away from the 20m shuttle run, on the beep you get up, run to the other end and get back down on your stomach facing away. 10 times at one speed, then 4 more sets of 10 with each set of 10 having less time between the beeps than the last. That hurt.
7. Go outside, pushups to a cadence, 10 at a time for 3 sets (don't you just love it when the PTI says "Lower!" and doesn't say "Raise!" for at least 10-20 seconds?), jogging on the spot and touching the ground either side or dropping to the pushup-up position (all multiple times) on command in between sets of pushups.
8. finish with tabata (sp?) squats. Full squats at high speed for 20 seconds (I usually manage 15-19), then rest for 10 seconds. Repeat 8 times for 4 minutes of pain.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 21 September 2011 - 08:37 AM

[Gust Hubb]

Day 2: more exercise on the elliptical, reinstated the calorie counts, and ate another bell pepper. Gods I'm hungry.

[footy_]

Push ups when you wake up. Or when I used to play Dota i did push ups after each game, like 100 not necessary at once

[Gust Hubb]

Day 3: Another entire bellpepper, more excercise, and staving off the appetite with sugarless tea.

[Slow Ben]

Tuna steak and veggies for dinner.

I cant believe i hadnt tried a tuna steak till a few weeks ago. They are fanfriggintastic. Just rub'em in some slap yo mama and pan sear both sides for a few minutes. mmmm mmmm mmmmmmmmmm.

[Obdigore]

@ SB -> Lemon Juice, Dill, and Old Bay

I don't know what 'slap yo mama' is, but what I just sent you makes Tuna Steaks more delicious than anything you could possibly imagine.

[Slow Ben]

Its basically salt, pepper, red pepper and garlic with a little spice.


I will definitely try that though, sounds delicious.

[tiam]

No training and gaining weight. Blast and codswallop. Other than helping my brother and walking the dog I havnt picked up a bar in a while. Im going to start looking for a job soon so I can rejoin the gym.

I like the press up idea from upthread so am going to aim to do 4 sets of 25 a day

[Mentalist]

trying to get back into exercising now that i'm back in uni.

made a start this week--doing ab ripper X routine off the p90X dvd every other morning.

also, gonna go play soccer later today.

[tiam]

Im going to sum up my meals for today. I would have laughed this off if someone would have toldme 6 months ago this would be my diet.

Wake up- Cofee four weetabix (I have this everyday so no big deal)
lunch- (1pm)- Big Mac with a large strawberry milkshake
dinner-tinned chopped tomatoes on toast (4 slices of bread)
supper- (really tea tbh) - Massive plate of ordered chinese food

Having no control over my food is one thing but even the hours im eating these things are ridiculous.

Edit- The tomatoes on toast was washed down with a piece of chocolate cake

This post has been edited by Orb Sceptre Boat: 24 September 2011 - 11:12 PM

[Slow Ben]

 Orb Sceptre Boat, on 24 September 2011 - 11:06 PM, said:

Im going to sum up my meals for today. I would have laughed this off if someone would have toldme 6 months ago this would be my diet.

Wake up- Cofee four weetabix (I have this everyday so no big deal)
lunch- (1pm)- Big Mac with a large strawberry milkshake
dinner-tinned chopped tomatoes on toast (4 slices of bread)
supper- (really tea tbh) - Massive plate of ordered chinese food

Having no control over my food is one thing but even the hours im eating these things are ridiculous.

Edit- The tomatoes on toast was washed down with a piece of chocolate cake

Scuse please, how is a Big Mac, milkshake and a massive plate of chinese food a diet choice?



@Mentalist- Doing abs is good, but if its all your doing you can throw yourself really out of whack. If your abs are really in shape and your lower back is weak it can jack you up good. Theres all kinds of opposing muscles in the body and if one side is much stronger than the other it causes trouble.

Grilled chicken salad with sunflower seeds for dinner tonight. Good stuff.

[tiam]

 Slow Ben, on 24 September 2011 - 11:40 PM, said:

 Orb Sceptre Boat, on 24 September 2011 - 11:06 PM, said:

Im going to sum up my meals for today. I would have laughed this off if someone would have toldme 6 months ago this would be my diet.

Wake up- Cofee four weetabix (I have this everyday so no big deal)
lunch- (1pm)- Big Mac with a large strawberry milkshake
dinner-tinned chopped tomatoes on toast (4 slices of bread)
supper- (really tea tbh) - Massive plate of ordered chinese food

Having no control over my food is one thing but even the hours im eating these things are ridiculous.

Edit- The tomatoes on toast was washed down with a piece of chocolate cake

Scuse please, how is a Big Mac, milkshake and a massive plate of chinese food a diet choice?



@Mentalist- Doing abs is good, but if its all your doing you can throw yourself really out of whack. If your abs are really in shape and your lower back is weak it can jack you up good. Theres all kinds of opposing muscles in the body and if one side is much stronger than the other it causes trouble.

Grilled chicken salad with sunflower seeds for dinner tonight. Good stuff.

Thats exactly my point its not a diet choice. I thought if I actually wrote it down and looked at it id realise how bad it was. The thread is designed for both positive and negative diet choices i.e. your on a specific diet yet have a day off so its still worth noting down.

[Rooster]

 Gust Hubb, on 23 September 2011 - 01:07 AM, said:

Day 3: Another entire bellpepper, more excercise, and staving off the appetite with sugarless tea.

What's with the Bell Peppers? Is there a specific dietary reason or do you just like Bell Peppers?

[Gust Hubb]

 Rooster, on 25 September 2011 - 04:10 PM, said:

 Gust Hubb, on 23 September 2011 - 01:07 AM, said:

Day 3: Another entire bellpepper, more excercise, and staving off the appetite with sugarless tea.

What's with the Bell Peppers? Is there a specific dietary reason or do you just like Bell Peppers?

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Bell_pepper

[Coco with marshmallows]

have gained approx 10/11 pounds while on holiday.

apparently a stack of pancakes and a tequila sunrise isn't that healthy a breakfast option. Who knew?

New semester starts this week, so fresh influx of students to deal with at the uni club. Will have to hammer myself over next few weeks to make up for it.

For the person bitching about push ups (Studious Lock I think?) I can only second the chin up bar recommendation. bought one a couple years ago from a catalogue shop for about £8 ($12 or so) and fitted it to my bedroom door-frame. I use it nearly every day and doing 10 pull ups then 10 chin ups on it is so much more interesting than doing another 50/60 push-ups.

[Dolmen 2.0]

This.

It hurts like hell. I did it yesterday and this morning, still hurting.

[amphibian]

I fell off in a big way this weekend - basically the March Madness of combat sports. With the ADCC going on, Bellator, Strikeforce, DREAM and UFC all being on from Friday night to today, I've been staying up late and ate a bunch.

Combine that with my friend's eccentric family having their Thanksgiving today. I ate two big heapings of Thanksgiving food and topped it off with a pie.

Definitely going to have to run tomorrow and do some burpees to start working it off, then hit BJJ. It'll provide a nice way to segue into tournament training.

[Binder of Demons]

I've been a lazy git the last few days and it's really annoyed me to be honest. I'm back in training for soccer, but since i'm old now and my ankles/knees/hips are all shot to bits i really have to limit the amount of running i can do.

What's really annoyed me though is we had a light training session on thursday night (tuesday is the heavy running session), so i rested on friday for the game on saturday. But then i didn't get any game time on saturday and didn't really feel in the mood to do anything by the time i got home from the match (having done the warm up and stood around for a few hours). Now sunday has passed and i didn't do anything worthwhile again so it's been nearly 2 weeks since i've had a really good running session (as i missed last tuesday's running session).

Kinda caught in a frustrating catch-22. Played a few games for the junior team at my club, but did well enough that i got called up to the senior side. But since i'm not fit enough at the moment, i can't get into the starting team and so i don't get game time to help with my match fitness. I'd probably have been better off staying with the lower team where i would get a reliable 90 mins and get fitter, and then actually be able to win a starting spot in a few weeks.

I've just got my old bike fixed up, so i'm planning on using that to do some serious cardio on my own which won't kill my knees, and should help give me back some of my old leg strength. Still can't do much upper body stuff since i dislocated my should last month, but i've managed to drop nearly 2kgs in the last 3 weeks but eating less rubbish food. Only about another 10kgs to go!!!!